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Definition of "humous" [humous]

  • Pertaining to or derived from humus or mold.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "humous" in a sentence
  • "Last little post-humous jab at Rand: Philosophy means “a love of wisdom” in Greek."
  • "I nominate a post-humous award to Margaret Sanger (I think she may have liked Catholic Social Justice), with Hillary Clinton (I think she might like Cath ...) accepting."
  • "And came the day when I moved my cattle on, and my plough-men went back and forth across the slopes 'contour -- ploughing the rich sod under to rot to live and crawling humous in which to bed my seeds of crops to be."
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